"We already know that language is special; no other aspect of cognition approaches its power, complexity, and learnability. But what’s left is defining the parameters of this specialness—to discover what it does and does not share with music, numeracy, logical reasoning, and everything else that makes us human."

— Jessica Love compares mathematics to language. (via theamericanscholar)

(via theatlantic)

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